Why Diabetic Patients Are More Likely to Get Hospital Infection?

Abstract

This theme that the author will address in this article is very well established in the literature of Western medicine where diabetic patients are more likely to have nosocomial infection. In the article written by Abu-Ashour et al. (2018) entitled Diabetes and the occurrence of infection in primary care: a matched cohort study, the author is saying that diabetic patients has an increased risk of having infection if compared to patients without diabetes [1].